December 2006/ January 2007 Volume 5/Number 9
--------------------- Sustainability: The Vedic Perspective on how to Save the Planet. By PRASHANTI de JAGER
--------------------- Core concepts handed down to us through the Vedas and the Yoga Tradition provide teachings for an unbroken circle of sustainability that can save the planet.
An urgency to take action and move toward sustainability has unquestionably begun anew. As we yogis consider sustainability as a choice to be made, the Vedic concepts of sattva and dana are inherent aspects if we are to achieve true sustainability again. Read article...
In Memory of Mother: Some thoughts in anticipation of the passing of the late great planet earth, as we know it. By SAYWARD AYRES My richest moments in life have been the times I’ve spent in Nature: hiking through forests, diving and sailing the oceans, climbing mountains, kayaking rivers, exploring deserts and swimming in lakes. I was raised in the wilds of Alaska, delivered at home by my father, and grew up watching the weasel in the woodpile change color each year, from brown in the summer to white in the winter. Read article...
Teacher profile: Karin O'Bannon - Wildcat with a Tiger's Eye. By FELICIA M. TOMASKO “We are drawn to different teachers for different reasons. To Karin we are drawn for her eye,” Iyengar Yoga Institute of Los Angeles Director David Charles said when he spoke about senior Iyengar yoga teacher Karin O’Bannon. Read article...
Ayurveda Q&A: By DR. JAY APTE Ayurveda has been practiced in the U.S. only about 25 years, yet it is the 5000 year old Indian system of medicine and yoga's sister science. Readers are invited to submit questions for "Ayurveda Q & A" to ayurveda@layogamagazine.comom
Q: Rough, dry patches have begun appearing on my feet, and I never have dry skin. I’m a 43 year-old woman with a constitution of pitta/kapha. I follow an Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle (as prescribed). What could be causing this and what suggestions can you give me, please?Read article...
Roshi Joan Halifax has been working in the field of End of Life Care for almost forty years. Her book The Fruitful Darkness – Reconnecting with the Body of the Earth, published in 1993, first introduced me to her work at a time in my life where grief over the death of my granddaughter seemed overwhelming. The depth and clarity of her thinking, her life of dedication to service fueled by an energy and passion with which she goes about her mission, exudes from her being like a rainbow spanning the skies above the Upaya Zen Center outside Santa Fe, New Mexico: intense, clear and present.
Julie: What is your position on removing life support systems for a terminally ill patient?
Roshi Joan: I don’t have a position per say. But I do have a position, and my position is to do what is most compassionate and what will really serve the individual. Sometimes life support systems are removed for reasons that are not entirely ethical but can be economically based or even reflect the challenges in hospitals for sustaining life.
Bellarmine Forum,
Loyola Marymount University,
Los Angeles
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wagged his left finger high in the air. Then as deftly as Edward Norton in The Illusionist, the right finger delivered a syncopated response while around 800 people sat transfixed in the magic of a vanishing breed – a passionate politician speaking on behalf of the environment.
Roshi Joan Halifax has been working in the field of End of Life Care for almost forty years. Her book The Fruitful Darkness – Reconnecting with the Body of the Earth, published in 1993, first introduced me to her work at a time in my life where grief over the death of my granddaughter seemed overwhelming. The depth and clarity of her thinking, her life of dedication to service fueled by an energy and passion with which she goes about her mission, exudes from her being like a rainbow spanning the skies above the Upaya Zen Center outside Santa Fe, New Mexico: intense, clear and present.